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I've spent two hours today trying to provide Sol with guidance that reduces its pretentiousness, to no avail. Layers upon layers of rules only for it to use the phrase "async splin…

Unfortunately it's one of the most bug-ridden and unreliable pieces of software I've ever used. I encounter issues with it on a daily basis, but the burden of switching and a lack …

Forget about the danger of a dev to customer pipeline with no product people in between, some of us are living with the reality of product to customer pipeline with no developers i…

> Features like tab groups, vertical tabs, profiles, new tab wallpapers, PWAs, and taskbar pinning weren’t just ideas – they were direct responses to what you told us you wanted Ye…

This isn't the only example of a debate over intentionality in mistakes in Infinite Jest. The book's french is also littered with errors so egregious that most think they could onl…

I found the overuse of italics for emphasis fatiguing

If your butcher felt the same way you did, he wouldn't exist

It's also slightly deceptive to describe the DOGE cuts to USAID programs as "one time cuts." This is technically true, but it implies that the programs will be replaced with differ…

There's an exception to this I've seen since a relative started working in the game industry. There are executives in that industry who have a retinue of loyal followers. The studi…

I was disappointed when I fully understood the limitations of SHR after purchasing my Synology box, and subsequently failed to install MergerFS on it. It's the only thing I miss ab…

AdGuard is system wide and works well for me, but it isn't free

Because this sounds so much like Logseq, I'm curious what about it didn't meet your needs

I hear this argument applied often when people bring up the deficiencies of AI, and I don't find it convincing. Compare an AI coding assistant to reaching out to another engineer o…

got it, thank you!

do you mean through Airplay?

this feels like a race to the bottom which every industry player except Apple is competing in. I never would have considered an Apple TV just a few years ago, but my Shield is gath…

Weirdly plausible considering Tasha McCauley also works for the RAND Corporation

My Zojirushi makes rice with better consistency and texture than any rice I've had outside of a sushi restaurant - but then again it's possible I just don't know anyone who knows h…

this is the big problem. I hope there's a fix for it someday.

what's your workflow like for situations where you need to poke around in an unfamiliar directory and open files in helix?

totally valid point. I would expect most people to be surprised that the variance is typically smaller than a spoonful of peanut butter, but the nature of gaining or losing weight …

There's good evidence that metabolic rate does vary, but not significantly. https://examine.com/articles/does-metabolism-vary-between-tw...

Excuse me if I take Tesla's self reported statistics with a grain of salt. "...statisticians have pointed out serious analytical flaws, including the fact that the Tesla stats invo…

It's entirely possible to travel to Russia, and not even inconvenient if you're an American. The flights are a little longer, but the visas are generous (3 year, multi entry). The …

Are you familiar with PRISM or the information Edward Snowden disclosed? The NSA doesn't need "magical" knowledge from the future, they have back doors and exploits in hardware, da…